Charlotte Caffey Quotes

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

I hope that women know that they can and should try everything they're interested in - with the confidence that men have had.

Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.

I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.

We gotta break these double-standards and get women to loosen up a bit. We gotta show them that we can do what we want to do how we want to do it. If someone doesn't like it, they can get to stepping.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.